Thread: The Trayvon Martin Case...

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Zimmerman had a broken nose and a gash on the back of his head as a result of something.

I believe the jury is still out on that one. I've seen just as much speculation saying that he did as I have seen saying that he didn't. I also think it's very important that - as was explained in one of the last videos someone posted - the lead investigator wanted to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter, due in part to his LACK of physical injuries, but was overruled by the state attorney (aka not an investigator).

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

However, a witness said that night that Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman, beating the shit out of him for a matter of minutes.

The funeral director disagrees, based on what he saw while dressing the body.

It's been a circus around here. I had to detour off the highway the other day, on the way to work, because there were SO MANY PEOPLE at the last rally. Traffic was backed up for miles. I was talking to a friend of mine last night, who is very close to the situation and was best friends with the girl whose property this whole thing happened on, whom I knew in school as well. I brought up a growing trend to her, that I'm seeing in a lot of activism over this topic, and I'm finding it really disappointing:

I'm all for the anger and the outrage. I'm all for the protesting and the marching and the shake-up at the Sanford PD, but what I'm seeing way too much of in the activist rhetoric is rushing to call Zimmerman a murderer, and calling the event 'Trayvon's murder', etc. etc. I understand that hearts are on fire because of the incident, but I think rushing to judgement not only sends a bad message about what is really motivating the movement, but it also goes a long way to delegitimizing the argument that lies at the center of the whole thing; that Zimmerman - whether he is guilty of murder or not - deserves to be put on trial.

I also brought up how there is a reason that cops are (supposedly) obligated to write out a full, detailed report whenever they discharge a weapon. Not just whenever they kill someone, but EVERY TIME the weapon is discharged. It is because the fact that they are cops does not (or rather, should not) exhonerate them from being held under some sort of scrutiny for their actions. Just because they are wearing a badge, or operating under the banner of justice doesn't mean they their actions are inherently justifiable, nor should their accounts of what happened go unverified. Zimmerman has basically skipped through this check, with the help of the Sanford PD. With that buffer of time between the incident and the 'temporary stepping-aside' of the Sanford PD chief, the chance of getting a sufficient investigation about what happened would be like trying to examine ground zero after all of the debris has been hurriedly packed up and shipped overseas. It's likely Not Going to Happen.